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The Impacts of Extreme Rainfall on Child Marriage in Bangladesh

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  • Hanol Lee

    (Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan, China)

  • Dainn Wie

    (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan)

  • Eunbi Song

    (Department of Economics, School of Business, Monash University, Selangor, Malaysia)

Abstract

Bangladesh has long been exposed to climate-induced disasters, and the literature has paid little attention to their impact on child marriage. This study empirically explores the gendered impact of extreme rainfall on child marriage in Bangladesh and provides a comprehensive yet detailed analysis using high-resolution weather data and nationally representative rural household survey. The duration analysis in this paper shows that women exposed to one standard deviation more extreme rainfall are at an increased risk of child marriage by 5.5%. However, we find no evidence that child marriages driven by extreme rainfall lead to early childbirth in women. We also report that extreme rainfall has no statistically significant impact on men’s child marriages. The main finding is consistent across several decades of cohort and robust to migration, which might threaten internal validity. We also highlight that our main findings are driven by households living in non-coastal regions, with significant heterogeneity across divisions.

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  • Hanol Lee & Dainn Wie & Eunbi Song, 2022. "The Impacts of Extreme Rainfall on Child Marriage in Bangladesh," GRIPS Discussion Papers 22-10, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:ngi:dpaper:22-10
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    Bangladesh; child marriage; extreme rainfall; survival analysis; weather shock;
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